BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL

memos

James L. Newman,

owner and managing
partner of Newman
Consulting Group LLC
in Bloomfield Hills,
has been selected to
serve as one of only
16 provisional asses-
Newman
sors for the American
Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
pilot for the operational rating of a
new building energy labeling program,
the Building Energy Quotient (EQ).
This program provides information
on potential and actual energy use
of buildings. Information on Newman
Consulting Group can be found at
www.newmanconsultinggrouP.us .

BBK, an interna-
tional business advi-
sory firm providing
financial, strategic
and operational
services, welcomes
Barry Lefkowitz of
„isv
Birmingham, who
Lefkowitz
has joined BBK as
managing director
in Southfield, BBK's corporate head-

quarters. He has more than 35 years
of experience, specializing in a wide-
range of bankruptcy, insolvency and
other litigation support matters. He also
has extensive experience in public and
forensic accounting, and in expert wit-
ness testimony. Lefkowitz is a certified
public accountant and a certified insol-
vency and restructuring adviser, one of
the original 50 professionals to receive
that certification.

Robert Zucker,

Ph.D., director of
the University of
Michigan Addiction
Research Center
and the Substance
Abuse Section in
the Department
Zucker
of Psychiatry, has
earned the Research
Society on Alcoholism Distinguished
Researcher Award.
Zucker, who is a professor in the
U-M departments of psychiatry and
psychology, primarily focuses his
research on a high-risk-for-substance
use disorder longitudinal study, now
26 years running. The project involves
2,200 participants in 460 families; it has

Lake, Rochester, Warren, Oxford and
Sterling Heights. He brings 20 years
of cellular sales experience, including
business-to-business sales as well as
inside sales. Rosen is based out of the
Bloomfield Hills and White Lake loca-
tions. He can be contacted at (248)
660-0566 or marty.rosen@
wirelessnetworkcommunications.com .

followed all family members since the
children were in preschool.
Zucker has been a U-M faculty mem-
ber since 1994.

Alan Reinstein was

recently awarded the
2009 Lawler Award
for Best Paper in the

Journal of Accountancy.

The winning paper,

The Detroit Chapter
of the Turnaround
Management
Association
announced that Scott
A. Eisenberg has
been elected presi-
dent for a one-year
term. Eisenberg is a
co-founder of Amherst
Partners and specializes in advising
small- to middle- market companies on
restructurings, financings, merger and
acquisitions, turnarounds and other
advisory services for companies in the
manufacturing, service, technology and
distribution industries. He is a CPA, a
recipient of Crain's Detroit Business list of

"Helping Solve CPA's
Ethical Dilemmas,"
Reinstein
was co-written by
Marty Leibowitz
(Yeshiva University/New York). The
Journal of Accountancy has a circulation
exceeding 360,000 and a readership
exceeding 500,000.

Wireless Network,
a Verizon Premium
Retailer, announced
the naming of Marty
Rosen of White Lake
as general man-
ager. Rosen will be in
charge of generating
Rosen
sales leads and cus-
tomers for Wireless Network's six loca-
tions, including Bloomfield Hills, White

"40 Under 40" and a finalist in the Ernst
& Young Entrepreneur of the Year in
2007 and 2008.

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Robert E. Mellen, CPA
Michael A. Pivoz, CPA
Mark L. Smith, CPA
Jeffry A. Campeau, CPA, ABV
Peijin Harrison, CPA
Lori A. Wigler, CPA, CFE
Frank J. Alcini, JR., CPA

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Eric L. Lambert, CPA
Lynne E. McKelvey, CPA
Elizabeth M. Pietrangelo, CPA
Jason L. Pivoz, CPA
Dennis A. Reef, CPA
Kevin S. Terry, CPA

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